On 71st Anniversary of Hiroshima, the Fear of a Nuclear Trump

Donald Trump also recently asked a national security expert three times why, since the US has nuclear weapons, it can’t use them.

Japan marked the 71st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Saturday as its Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for eliminating nuclear arms.

“We must not have the tragic experience of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 71 years ago repeat itself,” Abe said. “It is the responsibility of those of us who live in the present to keep on working without cease toward that aim.”

The United States dropped the bomb on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, killing thousands of people instantly and about 140,000 by the end of that year.

Meanwhile, U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said earlier this week that he would consider letting Japan and South Korea build their own nuclear weapons, rather than rely on the United States for protection against North Korea and China.

But Tomomi Inada, Japan’s new defense minister and an Abe ally, said on Wednesday she did not believe Japan should consider possessing nuclear weapons.

“It is terrifying that Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s nominee to be our next Commander in Chief, is so anxious to use nuclear weapons.”

Donald Trump also recently asked a national security expert three times why, since the US has nuclear weapons, it can’t use them.

“It is terrifying that Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s nominee to be our next Commander in Chief, is so anxious to use nuclear weapons,” Rev. Robert Moore, Coalition for Peace Action (CFPA) executive director, said in a statement released on Thursday.

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history.